Owning an ipod without a dock is not quite as bad as having an iPod dock that can’t do much else besides playing your ipod. Nextbase comes to the rescue with an iPod dock that survives beautifully even without its iPod host. Welcome the Media 22- a full featured multimedia workhorse that can dock your ipod, handle movies from iPod video or DVD through a 3.6 inch screen and connect with bluetooth enabled devices.

Here’s what the beauty looks like:

If there isn’t an ipod around, you can pop in an SD/MMC or memory stick pro and load content from there. Tired of your collection? No sweat- groove to your fave FM station with  built in tuner. It’s always a fine day with this audiophile’s wet dream.

The Media22  also sports a wooden 2.1 speaker system to provide rich, embracing tunes suitable for any audio or video occasion. I tried it with pop, rock, jazz and classical. It never croaked like a frog.

 The Media22 may be the last Ipod dock you’ll ever need!